Six Crowns, One Empire

The 1987 DOS strategy game returns to the throne, illustrated and rebuilt for iPhone and iPad. You rule one of the six kingdoms: France, Brittany, Germany, Spain, Muscovy or Persia. Year after year you decide how your people live, how much tax they pay and whom your army marches against. A YEAR OF YOUR REIGN • Granaries: the weather decides the harvest; you decide how many bushels go to the army and how many to the people. At the market you buy and offer grain, and you can sell land. • Government: set the three taxes and invest the royal treasury in marketplaces, grain mills, foundries, shipyards and the palace, which brings nobles to court. Recruit soldiers and feed them well: a hungry army fights badly. • Borders: send your expeditions against the barbarians’ land and, from the third year, against the other kingdoms. • At the end of the year the report tells of harvests, battles,…